â€œWMSCI attracted publicity of a less favorable sort in 2005 when three graduate students at MIT succeeded in getting a paper accepted as a â€œnon-reviewed paperâ€ to the conference that had been randomly generated by a computer program called SCIgen.â€

GÃ¼lan made a presentation on “Problems of Interactivity in Education” at the conference last winter, and then he generated this paper while they were preparing the print proceedings and submitted it “as an example: both to show the problems of academy and the possibilities of electronic interactivity.” The author also added his own digital art works at the end of the paper, to give reference to visual arts. An amazing thing about this paper is that Professor GÃ¼lan added an endnote to the paper explaining that it was randomly generated by SCIgen, and it was still accepted! According to the good professor, this is a “OK” conference in his area in terms of quality, but apparently they don’t read their submissions.

Abstract: Unified mobile algorithms have led to many intuitive advances, including IPv7 and the lookaside buffer. After years of intuitive research into fiber-optic cables, we argue the synthesis of lambda calculus. We concentrate our efforts on proving that the well-known distributed algorithm for the visualization of the Turing machine [5] is NP-complete.

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If you’d like to “review” some of the submissions this year, I blogged some instructions at
http://mrscake.livejournal.com/162971.html . They got some doozies, including one called “Presenting at the Majors: A comparison of finance, anaesthesia and artificial intelligence.”